Useless/unwanted gifts?

jackieb

Rockporkchop wrote: »

Luckily my DH made up for it with a decent present for once - for my 40th this year he bought me a voucher for bikini line laser hair removal. It was a looong time before he had the opportunity to see my bikini line again I can tell you.

:rotfl::rotfl:

purple.sarah

Not mine but this year a friend famous for giving everyone in our circle the same generic gift improved with the girls and got us all something personal. However the guys still all got the same sort of thing, which this year was kid's Christmas books! Very nostalgic, but not many men in their early 20s will admit to being wistful for when their mum used to read them Christmas stories or when they will read to their kids one day. They were not impressed, especially when she insisted on the books being read aloud in the pub where we were on a Christmas night out! I even rescued a book I quite liked and thought the guy was going to throw away later by asking to 'borrow' it. He seemed so grateful I don't think he's going to ask for it back!

tesuhoha

jackieb wrote: »

My MIL gave me an ashtray for Christmas. I've never smoked, although her son, my husband did at the time, but she never gave him an ashtray!

Also, for a wedding present, we got a gift from my in-laws neighbour. It was good of him to think of us. Do you remember those plaster of paris moulds you used to get - usually for kids to make. We got a completed one of them. It was a woodpecker, very badly painted! Looked like something a 3yo had done. Also from one of his relatives, we got a wall clock. It was in a frame and the backround was black felt and there was a gaudy butterfly on one of the hands. I can't even find a picture of a similar one online. I'd love to post a picture. I should've kept it - it might be worth something. :rotfl:

Our wedding present from the inlaws was a wooden chopping board with a rope handle

basscadette

samboette wrote: »

I receive on the whole very nice presents except from the partner of my OH's Dad.

Yep, same here. My FIL's wife makes up the sum total of crap presents apart from one.

My ex boyfriend's mother gave me a bright red, shiny, synthetic ill fitting camisole that she got free on her hair dye one year for Christmas which was lovely, not.

My FIL's wife wins the price for most thoughtless and even insulting presents though. One year for my birthday they were on the phone demanding we came round as they had presents for me. They sat there eagerly watching me opening them - a key holder and a tealight holder that I had seen on his OH's granny's dining tablew a few weeks before.

Last year for xmas I got a miniature tube of cheap lavender shower gel - nice. Again, forced to open it while everyone watched.

The worst present, and really, I would have rather had no present at all, was when my son was born two months ago. They brought round two bags of sick and poo stained, ancient, well worn baby clothes that they'd found at a car boot sale - nothing else. Each dirty item was individually wrapped. I refused to unwrap any but my poor OH was forced to unwrap each one and say 'ooh, lovely'. This was me - :silenced::mad::mad::mad: :silenced: That's the best they could do for his dad's first grandson.

I'm still very angry to this day. They are loaded, always going on holidays and doing nice things. Their kids never wear second hand clothes so I cannot understand how they thought this was appropriate. Anyway, tomorrow we have to go there to give their kids their presents and I'm dreading it. I just hope to god there's no more second hand crap as we really don;t need it. Do I sound ungrateful :rotfl:

basscadette

tesuhoha wrote: »

Our wedding present from the inlaws was a wooden chopping board with a rope handle

Haha we got some cheeseboards from Lidl - you just reminded me.

ETA OH used to be bad at buying gifts but has improved immensely. One year I got a £25 amazon voucher. The first year we were together I got a cheap, supermarket digi-box, despite already having a fully functional one! This year I have loads of amazing stuff that I love!!

Kaz2904

My best worst present this year was a bright pink bird box. I hate birds or anything flappy and I have a cat who kills everything in sight! From the same people, DH got a set of 2 Irish coffee cups with the coffee in them. You heat it in the microwave. We have decided to just get for the kids from now on and hope they'll go for it.
Previously, my MiL got me a gossard diamante g string when my DS was 6 days old :eek: and I don't even wear thongs let alone g strings!

Mimi09

My oh lovingly gave me a tube of hemaroid cream one mother's day....in our early years I got a walking pole, the following year a wine rack for 36 bottles (there is never more than a couple of bottles in the house as we drink them as soon as they're bought!). Romantic to the hilt....

At his family Christmas I was distracted by the baby whilst he unwrapped the gift from his Grandparents. He held up a pair of scissors and I went into gushing raptures 'how lovely, really useful, perfect, thank you...'
everyone fell about laughing as he'd used the scissors to open the present:o:o

victory

One year a long while ago I had asked for a leather jacket (just off the market one) we had even been down together to see it so thought it would be a dead cert, xmas day there is a massive box, I open it so excited only to find a netball inside, a netball why a netball? 'Oh I just thought it would be a really good idea as you used to play netball at school and thought you might like to start playing again':rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

seven-day-weekend

Mine is not a 'crap' present, it is one I like, but the way it was presented is so typical of my son and his quirky sense of humour.

It was locked inside a little cash box, for which he had hidden the key and went into fits of mirth as my husband struggled to find it (he'd been told it was HIS present). - then when my husband found the key, inside the box was a little card with 'it's not yours, it's mum's' written on the envelope. Inside the envelope was a gift voucher for Waterstones and in the place where he has to write the amount, my son had put 'can't remember':rotfl:

Hopefully Waterstones will have the amount on their system!!

(And our son had actually bought my husband a Light Box which my husband was delighted with And we are both happy with the cash box!:rotfl:).

Errata

One Christmas my OH gave me 20 sacks of mushroom compost. To put on his veggie patch !